StreetSmarts VR

Street Smarts VR develops a first-person, hands-on extended-reality training platform for military and law enforcement organizations. The system is configured to a customer's training requirements, captures each repetition performed by a trainee, and maps performance to training standards so leaders can document readiness with performance data rather than a single annual qualification event. Telemetry captured during sessions includes measures such as accuracy, shot grouping, engagement time and target acquisition time, tied to referenced standards.

The platform is modular and covers multiple standards and mission sets. Commercially available scenario packages listed by the company include defense content such as kinetic and electronic counter-UAS engagement, integrated base defense, CBRN and post-attack recovery, small boat attack and anti-terrorism force protection; law enforcement content such as use of force and de-escalation, traffic stop escalation, domestic disturbance calls and school lockdown response; and shared defense/law-enforcement content covering insider threat and active shooter response and marksmanship sustainment. A Creator tool lets customers author their own scenarios, map them to internal standards and deploy them to their force. The company also supplies mission-configured weapon replicas and accessories and custom content built to a customer's doctrine and environment.

The company frames its market around three gaps in conventional training: the logistics bottleneck of scheduling, travel, ammunition and range availability; the absence of instrumentation to capture reps, errors and skill degradation; and long intervals between practice opportunities. Its stated approach is deployable kits, standards mapping and structured evidence so that training can happen at the unit rather than requiring units to travel to a range or rely on contractor-operated, stationary simulators.

Founding story

The company was founded in 2017 by Oliver Noteware, a former Marine infantry officer who serves as Founder and CEO. He describes encountering persistent shortages of ammunition, vehicles, ranges and time as a small-unit leader, improvising drills in parking lots and barracks, and finding on-base marksmanship simulators to be single-projector systems requiring reservations and contractor operation. He concluded the constraint was training infrastructure rather than willingness to train, and set out to build a system that moves the range to the unit.

Business model

Street Smarts VR sells a configurable training platform to institutional buyers, combining software scenarios, a scenario-authoring tool, deployable hardware kits and mission-configured weapon replicas and accessories, plus custom content development configured to a customer's doctrine and standards.

Traction

The company reports more than 50 agencies, more than 100 deployment locations and more than 10,000 users, and operates four offices across North America. Shares in the company are offered on EquityZen's secondary marketplace for private company stock under the identifier STSV.